Its too bad rigour and augury aren't 1 defence. It kills build diversity.
Piety is unlocked from a quest, so I don't see why rigour and augury must be bound to 70 defence as well as they are unlocked from different sources. They are prayers unlocked from the prayer skill, not from defence. It doesn't always have to make sense "tier" wise. D'hide bodies require defence while the chaps and vambraces do not.
I can see why people would want it to require 70 defence because of piety. But its leading into "tier scape" where you see the same account builds at specific combat brackets. It would be interesting to give these prayers to high combat level pures (high cb because of higher prayer level) who are already at a disadvatage against defence builds at those combat lvls. The 70 defence requirement just seperates them even more.
1 Defence Rigour/Augury doesn't unbalance range and magic from melee PVP-wise based on the combat formula. 52 to 77 prayer is 3 combat lvls. To put this to perspective, 60 to 75 attack is 5 combat levels which is HUGE, as it unlocks AGS and TSOTD. So what you'll see is 60 attack + 99 strength + 99 range + 99 magic + 77 prayer (rigour and augory only) roughly equal to 75 attack + 99 strength + 99 range + 99 magic + 52 prayer combat level wise but the second build would have AGS and TSOTD. It is debatable on which account build is better.
===> This creates account build VARIETY.
70 Defence Rigour/Augury also doesn't unbalance range and magic from melee PVP-wise BUT DOES affect majorly different account builds. 1-70 Defence is roughly 17 combat levels. 17 combat levels is the difference of ~55 strength or attack levels. It's basically a maxed pure (99 attack + 99 strength + 77 prayer + 1 Defence) vs 60 attack + 99 strength + 77 prayer + 70 defence account. As it is now without rigour/augury, the 70 defence account has a huge advantage. 70 Defence Rigour/Augury makes this difference even larger.
16-Aug-2016 17:19:03
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Legendre
